Re: TAI NÜA , TAI LE

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"Nuea" (เหนือ) indeed means "north" or "northern" in the standard Central Thai
language, whereas I believe "le" is the way northerners pronounce the same
word.

BTW, readers of this mailing list may be interested bookmarking the following
online Thai-English dictionary from NECTEC:

 http://lexitron.nectec.or.th/

On Thursday 2003.09.11 12:29:52 -0700, Richard Cook wrote:
> Gedney says "nuea"/"nü" is a Thai word for 'north/northern' ... looks
> as if the syllable in this name gets written many different ways ...
> le, lu, lü, lüe, lue, nü, nüa, nüe, neua, nuea ... at least it's
> possibly the same syllable.
>
> Here are some references:
>
> Gedney, William J. 1976. "Notes on Tai Nuea". In _Tai Linguistics in
> Honor of Fang-kuei Li. (Gething et al. eds.) Bangkok. [62-102].
>
> Morez, L. N. 1978. _Jazyk Ly_. Moskow: Nauka.
>
> Seree Weroha. 1974. _Tai Lue / English Dictionary_. 2 Vol. Univ.
> Michigan.
>
>

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